Build Celestia on Ubuntu 14.04

Question

I'd like to build Celestia-1.6.1 on my Ubuntu 14.04 machine however, it seems that I can't do that easily with the gcc version 4.9.1.

I'm using source files from http://sourceforge.net/projects/celestia/files/

Running ./configure --with glut works:

***************************************************************
** Celestia configuration complete. Now do a 'make' followed **
** by 'make install'                                         **
***************************************************************

Front-End: GLUT
Use Lua: yes
Use Theora: auto

Then I got errors when running make, two that can be solved:

1. #include "mathlib.h" in file intersect.h
2. #include <cstddef> in file frametree.h

However I can't fix the last error:

/usr/bin/ld: ../celengine/libcelengine.a(libcelengine_a-glext.o): undefined reference to symbol 'dlclose@@GLIBC_2.2.5'
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.9/../../../x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so: error adding symbols: DSO missing from command line
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status

Does anyone have succeed doing this build?

Answer 1

I would recommend that you use the latest sources from SVN. Celestia 1.6.1 is quite old. Celestia 1.7 was never released, but it was close to being released. There is no development at the moment in Celestia SVN.

The recommended UI for Celestia 1.7 is QT4. Makefile for building this UI is generated with qmake, not with GNU autotools.

Edit celestia.pro.

run qmake
and make

More details at: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Celestia/Development/Qt4

Because the development in the official SourceForge SVN is dead, I have just started a git repo with the latest Celestia sources: https://github.com/bgodard/celestia-g2 . It includes a patch which adds a new feature to Celestia.

If you really want to build Celestia 1.6.1, you might want to get the source package from the Ubuntu repo and see which patches might have been applied to have it compile with recent gcc versions.